The Rural Alberta Advantage
Departing

If you name yourself “The Rural Alberta Advantage,” you better be damn well prepared for people to constantly inquire as to just what it is about a wi...

The Rural Alberta Advantage’s debut, Hometowns, was met with a lot of praise for its bleak, bramble-folk depiction of the brutal, regrettable, and som...

The most amazing thing about Departing is that it's potentially better than its companion piece/predecessor, Hometowns. Like on Hometowns, the songwri...

The Rural Alberta Advantage may be a humble, charming trio playing ramshackle folk-rock, but on their sophomore record they face a problem more often ...

At the end of Departing, The Rural Alberta Advantage's sophomore album, frontman Nils Edenloff sings about god. Or at least he seems to be; the lyric ...

Departing will sound immediately familiar to anyone who's heard Hometowns, the 2009 wounded-hearts-and-small-towns album from Canadian indie-folk trio...

The highly anticipated second release from Rural Alberta Advantage has not disappointed. This is a band with a unique character. The songs throughout ...

On Departing, its second long-player, The Rural Alberta Advantage stays true to the bare-bones, Neutral Milk-spiked folk-pop formula with which it beg...

The cover image that graces the Rural Alberta Advantage’s sophomore album, Departing, is about as iconic in Canadiana as they come: the approaching he...

Three years and a truckload of accolades ago, The Rural Alberta Advantage’s debut album, Hometowns, was warmly embraced by many a cardigan-clad indie ...